Cookie Policy

1. Cookies and similar technologies

A cookie is a small text record a website or service can place in a browser. Local storage is a related browser feature that can remember a preference without sending that value with every request. Pixels, scripts and software-development tools can perform related functions.

Some technologies are set directly by Mahando.com. Others may be set or read by a third-party service that appears on a page, such as an advertising or payment provider.

2. Technologies used on Mahando.com

Essential and security functions

The web server and interactive features may use short-lived technical records where necessary to deliver a request, protect a form, maintain security or complete a payment flow. Server logs also record ordinary request information but are not browser cookies.

Appearance preference

When you select light or dark mode, Mahando.com stores the value light or dark in your browser under mahando-theme. This is local storage, not an advertising cookie. It remains until you change it or clear website data.

Advertising

Some Mahando.com pages may display Google AdSense advertising. Where advertising is present, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to deliver, limit, personalize or measure ads, subject to your choices and applicable law.

Features opened only when selected

Links to WhatsApp, Google Play or another external website do not by themselves place that external service's cookies through Mahando.com. Once you follow the link, the destination may use its own cookies under its own policy. A payment request can also connect to a payment provider after you choose to continue.

3. Current browser-storage summary

The exact names used by advertising providers can change as their services and consent choices evolve. This policy therefore describes their functions and links to the provider's current controls.

4. Google advertising and personalized ads

Google states that advertising cookies can allow it and its partners to serve ads based on a visit to Mahando.com and other websites. On pages where Google ads are enabled, information such as an IP address, device or browser information, page URL and ad interactions may be processed by Google.

You can review or change Google's advertising choices at Google Ads Settings. You can also learn how Google handles information from sites and apps that use its services in How Google uses information from partner sites.

Where applicable law requires consent—such as for certain visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland—non-essential advertising technology should be used in accordance with an appropriate consent choice and Google's applicable publisher requirements.

5. Third-party services

Third-party services control the cookies and identifiers they set. Their practices can change independently of Mahando.com. Services linked or used by the website may include:

• Google: advertising, Google Play destinations and related platform services;
• WhatsApp / Meta: communication after you open the WhatsApp contact link;
• payment providers: transaction processing after you start a voluntary contribution; and
• hosting or security providers: technical delivery, abuse prevention and infrastructure protection.

Review a provider's own cookie and privacy information for its current list, duration and controls.

6. How to control cookies and storage

You can control these technologies in several ways:

• use any cookie or privacy choices displayed on the relevant page;
• block or delete cookies in your browser's privacy settings;
• clear local storage or other site data for Mahando.com;
• use browser settings that limit cross-site tracking or third-party cookies;
• change ad personalization through Google Ads Settings; and
• avoid opening an optional external service if you do not want to interact with that provider.

7. What happens if storage is disabled

The main public portfolio should remain readable when optional cookies are restricted. Some convenience, advertising, payment or third-party features may not work as intended. If local storage is cleared, the website will use your system color preference until you choose a theme again.

8. Changes and contact

This policy may be updated when the website adds, removes or changes a technology. The date at the top shows the latest published revision.

Questions about a browser-storage item or an unexpected cookie can be sent to Mahando with the page URL and cookie name, but do not include passwords, PINs or full payment credentials.